Joh_10:30 I and my Father are one.
Have you ever sat and contemplated the coming of God to this earth to die for us? Really truly understood God walked this earth in a man's body. We always say Christ died for us. Yet God was Christ, Christ is/was God. God took on our form, the Creator became as the created.
He suffered and bled and died as we will all do. He lived a life as we do - hungry, lonely through birth, puberty, and the prime of His life. He was as us.
He was tempted, He was broke, He was celebrated, He was rejected, He was loved. He was betrayed.
He was famous, He was ostracized. He was popular, He was despised.
Joh_1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
He came to His chosen people the Jews and they rejected Him. He worked miracles, He preached truth. He set the Jewish world on fire. He came and showed the people that God is not difficult to get along with. He showed that all the strictures, rules, and laws of the religious sects were nonsense.
That (He) God cared only about the individual state of heart, not all the traditions and physical limitations, He cared not a fig for their pomposity or their prerequisites.
He summed up the law in a very simple statement.
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
No where did He say you can not walk too much on the sabbath, or work on the sabbath, or any of the simple stupid add ons man made to the law.
Mat_11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat_11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
God walked among us, came to His own people who were looking for Him. Yet they recognized Him not because He did not come in a manner they expected. Even though they were specifically told of the time and place.
Even in His birth they were looking to their own ideas of what their Savior would be and do. They were considering their circumstance and their problems as His main concern. They were not looking into God's heart and God's plan. Of course we are still in this line of thought today so we can hardly blame them.
God came to this world, He was rejected by His chosen people.
Today we have God's Word, His Story, and His Spirit and yet rejection of Him is still going on. We have all the same assets plus that the Jewish folks had and we are still giving Him the same treatment.
Why?
Is it because we place upon Him our own human restrictions? Our own thoughts and preconceptions?
Is it because man is just basically sinful and can not know good except that we see it through God'\s Spirit?
Is it because the cares and concerns of this world are weighing upon us and in our limited way we can only see the circumstances of us and not His big picture?
Is it because the pleasures, temptations of this world are all we know and we can not rise above to see His pleasure, His rewards?
Is it because we do not look to His Word daily to see through His eyes, we do not pray heartfelt repentance and sincere desire to truly know Him?
Or is it all of these?
Have you ever sat and contemplated the coming of God to this earth to die for us? Really truly understood God walked this earth in a man's body. We always say Christ died for us. Yet God was Christ, Christ is/was God. God took on our form, the Creator became as the created.
He suffered and bled and died as we will all do. He lived a life as we do - hungry, lonely through birth, puberty, and the prime of His life. He was as us.
He was tempted, He was broke, He was celebrated, He was rejected, He was loved. He was betrayed.
He was famous, He was ostracized. He was popular, He was despised.
Joh_1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
He came to His chosen people the Jews and they rejected Him. He worked miracles, He preached truth. He set the Jewish world on fire. He came and showed the people that God is not difficult to get along with. He showed that all the strictures, rules, and laws of the religious sects were nonsense.
That (He) God cared only about the individual state of heart, not all the traditions and physical limitations, He cared not a fig for their pomposity or their prerequisites.
He summed up the law in a very simple statement.
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
No where did He say you can not walk too much on the sabbath, or work on the sabbath, or any of the simple stupid add ons man made to the law.
Mat_11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat_11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
God walked among us, came to His own people who were looking for Him. Yet they recognized Him not because He did not come in a manner they expected. Even though they were specifically told of the time and place.
Even in His birth they were looking to their own ideas of what their Savior would be and do. They were considering their circumstance and their problems as His main concern. They were not looking into God's heart and God's plan. Of course we are still in this line of thought today so we can hardly blame them.
God came to this world, He was rejected by His chosen people.
Today we have God's Word, His Story, and His Spirit and yet rejection of Him is still going on. We have all the same assets plus that the Jewish folks had and we are still giving Him the same treatment.
Why?
Is it because we place upon Him our own human restrictions? Our own thoughts and preconceptions?
Is it because man is just basically sinful and can not know good except that we see it through God'\s Spirit?
Is it because the cares and concerns of this world are weighing upon us and in our limited way we can only see the circumstances of us and not His big picture?
Is it because the pleasures, temptations of this world are all we know and we can not rise above to see His pleasure, His rewards?
Is it because we do not look to His Word daily to see through His eyes, we do not pray heartfelt repentance and sincere desire to truly know Him?
Or is it all of these?
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